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Ducks under Reeds
1400s
- Medium
- hanging scroll; ink and color on silk
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- Overall: 122.5 x 79.4 cm (48 1/4 x 31 1/4 in.)
- Culture
- China, Ming dynasty (1368–1644)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Chinese Art
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles L. Freer
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
The artist realistically represented that the Mandarin duck is a sexually dimorphic species, meaning males and females differ in appearance.
